UNHCR Nigeria: Shelter Interventions

UNHCR is currently implementing shelter response in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe
States. This intervention is done through: i) Providing technical guidance to
improve site planning of all camps under UNHCR responsibility ii) emergency
shelter iii) Shelter kits iv) construction of permanent shelters. UNHCR partners with
the State government and key partners to implement adequate and proper shelter
response to meet the international standard. Shelter beneficiary selection was
prioritized via registration and vulnerability screening of internally Displaced
Persons and returnees. UNHCR mainstreams Sexual and Gender Based Violence
into Camp Coordination Camp Management, site planning and ensuring that
settlements are planned with basic services to mitigate the risks of fire outbreaks.
Provision of adequate shelter facilitates access to durable solutions in transition
towards recovery and integration for displaced populations in return areas. UNHCR
bases it’s shelter response on the international principle that human beings have
the right to family privacy, safety and dignity.

In Nigeria, UNHCR works with the Government, partners and other United Nations Agencies to uphold the rights and well being of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugee returnees and asylum seekers in the ECOWAS region.